The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-04-11
Brief JoTTINcS.

There were 81 arrests last week of which |
32 were for drunkenness.
The fishing business is quiet and no mack.
erel have yet come in.
The parish meeting at State street church
will be held this evening.
About dozen families ha~ -
Islands for the SUNNI oouod -
The Maine r. " c
'ue''s .entrali is filling in the embank-
a. the westerly side of Congress ST.,
and will straighten the track
The steamer Falmouth, No. 4 company
have been furnished by Talbot & Moulton
with new hose wagon.
The Woodbury. has been changed from
winter to summer rig, and gone on her sta
tion.
The "Ys" will meet to sew this afternoon
at 2.30 o'clock with Mrs. Osgood, Ill Oxford
street.
Burglars broke into Loveitt's fish store on
Congress street Friday night and stole some
Holsters and few coppers.
John Tiagne, aged IL years, had three fin
gers taken off in the machinery of the Lii
gonia mills, Friday last.
The Longfellow c. L. S. c. will meet to-
night with Mrs. r. Fl. Turner corner of
State and Deering streets.
Longfellow Chautauqua Circle will meet
this evening with r. II. Turner, Deering
street.
1t is understood that mass meeting will
soon be in the city to express sympathy with
Parnell and the Irish cause and to protest
against coercion.
A. l.. johnson received lobster Saturday
that weighed twenty pounds, and was thirty
inches long. Lombard, in the Row, will ex-
hibit it today.
Mr.. N. E. Rankin was presented with a
fine violin, Saturday night, by Mr.. III. G..
Hanson in behalf of the students of Port
land Business College and Miss Jennie E.
Reynolds read several selections.
Friday night Frenchman broke into the
store of Mr.. Decomier on Bridge street, Sac
carappa, and was captured in he act by the
proprietor, who was watching for the Gull
prit. Officer Cousins was called and he took
the thief in charge.
Bosworth Post has appointed Messrs. w.
III, Green, G. II. Abbott, @. H. shinn, G. p.
Mattocks and Ii. B. Cleayes committee TO
solicit funds for the National Grant Monu-
ment, at gathering of comrades a other
citizens to be held April 9th.
The regular meeting of the Natural Histo-
ny Society will be held this evening at 73O p.
IN. Lieut.. Perry's donations of Greenland
specimens will be noticed, and DR.. Wood
read paper on the peculiarties of this win
ter's snow storms.
The value Of last weeks exports was.$33S,-
Ss3.77, and included among them iwere S2l,-
$50 feet Of lumber, 1914 barrels of apples, 779
barrels claim bait, and 1911 cases Of splints.
Among the imports were 1000 boxes of tin
plates, 310S bags sugar, 562 hogsheads, 152
tierces, 762 nuncheons molasses
At the regular meeting of Post 10 G. A. r.
of Boston, Friday evening, the chairman of
the entertainment committee presented to
the Post a life-size crayon portrait of Gov
ernor John A. Andrew. The gift came from
the -Four Robins" ladies who came from
Portland, and accompanied the Post on its
excursion TO Richmond last fall.
April Goth, Grand Canton Ridgeley, No. 2,
win give grand ball at City Hall, compli-
mentary to Maj. Gen. Written and staff. 1t
will be the 6Sth anniversary of Odd Fellow
ship. Prominent men will ibe present, and
Chandler will furnish the music. A special
meeting will be held this evening to make
necessary arrangements, and every member
is requested to be present.